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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Another San Diego Comic Con has come and gone and while the
convention keeps getting bigger and bigger, this year’s comic-centered events
seemed a bit more low-key (if that’s possible at SDCC) that previous years. Possibly
due to Marvel not bringing in a movie-themed property to their booth or DC only
bringing in their Batman v. Superman cast for one appearance, the excitement to
meet comic creators didn’t wow or go as big as even SDCC 2014.

It’s still an
overwhelming event and one that is set to dull the senses, Comic Con was a fun
event to attend and experience even though SDCC 2015 wouldn’t be ranked among
my highlights of all comic conventions this year.

Preview Night

Badge pick-up was smooth with a quick line up and then the
corralling into the Sails Pavilion in order to get to the main hall. For a
3-hour day that opens at 6pm, people were lined up already around 1pm.

As usual the herds of people and scalpers marching into the
convention hall on preview night meant the hot exclusives would be gone even
before we made it onto the floor. Exhibitors are well grounded on getting to
the lines of retailers first, even swapping out their exhibitor badges with
general passes in order to circumvent some of the line rules.

An infuriating item for me this year as the DC Comics Jim
Lee Batman sketch exclusive figure whichwas set to retail for $300 but DC decided to dived the 150 figures to
floor retailers for some reason meaning by the time the doors first opened they
were already marked up to $1,000!

Due to the inevitable long lines for all the SDCC exclusives
this was the first year we did not line up to buy any of the con exclusive
items.